"Salvation is of the LORD." -Jonah 2:9

"He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure."   - 2 Samuel 23:5 [KJV] O the blessedness of having a manifest interest in the blood of the covenant, and thus to have a testimony that God has made a covenant with his dear Son upon our behalf; that our names are written in the book of life; and that Christ is our Mediator at the right hand of the Father! What are all earthly blessings compared with this? What are health and strength and riches and all the goods of this life; what is everything that the carnal heart can desire or the covetous mind grasp; what is all compared with an interest in the everlasting covenant, and in the love and blood and righteousness of the Lord the Lamb? What is earth, with all its attractions, compared with an interest in the precious, precious blood of a dying Jesus?   You will find it so when you come to lie upon a bed of languishing and pain; when the cold drops of sweat stand upon your forehead, and the last e...

  The Scriptures abound with allusions to the blood of Christ and show conclusively that no one but those who are cleansed with that blood can enter glory. 圣经充满了基督之血的典故，并确切地表明若不是宝血的洁净没有人能进入荣耀。 The human heart is so deeply stained with sin, that, in order to get rid of sin, it clings to a thousand fake remedies.  It shouts with deafening silence, “Anything, anything but the blood of Christ.”  However, to trust in anything or anyone other than Christ and His precious blood is utterly redundant. 人心被罪污染的如此严重，所以，为了摆脱罪，有上千种的骗人方式。它以震耳欲聋的方式叫嚣：“任何事，任何事，除了基督的宝血。”然而，除了基督和祂的宝血，信靠任何事或人都是无用的。 Cleansing by the blood is the theme tune of God’s people.  The entire redeemed community in glory will sing with one voice “ Thou art worthy, . . . for thou . . . hast redeemed to God by thy blood ,” (Revelation 5:9).   用宝血得洁净是上帝子民的主旋律。整个被救赎的种群都要在荣耀里同唱：“你配……因你……用自己的血……叫他们归于上帝”（启示录５：９）。 Let’s then briefly consider seven things that the Word of God says about the blood. May we all be spiri...

 " Why do we live in a fallen America? It is because of the failure of modern day Christianity. Their compliance and false piety has led to our current circumstances.” Thoughts to consider: https://rumble.com/vsgqhk-the-failure-of-christians.html About the speaker: Derek Carlsen is a pastor from South Africa. He experienced firsthand the oppression of a tyrannical government. He confronted the killer tyrant Mugabe with the Word of God. In this speech he confronts the failure of Christian elders to address the tyranny they see in society. He gives you – the people – actionable items to bring to your leadership. SHARE this Talk, especially with your Pastor and Elders!   Share this:

"And he said unto them, Say now unto her, Behold; thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people." -II Kings 4:13  [KJV] What an interesting account, though short, is here given of the Shunamite. The sacred historian calls her "a great woman," and certainly, she here manifests that she had a great mind. What she had done for the prophet, she sought no recompence for. Neither the favours of the king, nor the captain of his host, were of any value to her and her husband. Dwelling with content in what she had, and "among her own people," was in her view enough of earthly enjoyment.    But is there not a spiritual improvement to be made of the passage? Do not the people of our God "dwell alone?" And have they not been from everlasting so appointed, in the purposes of God their Father, and chosen in C...

"I will bear the indignation of the L ORD , because I have sinned against Him." - Micah 7:9 [KJV] It is a view of our sins against God that enables us to bear the indignation of the Lord against us and them. As long as we are left to a spirit of pride and self-righteousness, we murmur at the Lord's dealings when His hand lies heavy upon us. But let us only truly feel what we rightly deserve: that will silence at once all murmuring. You may murmur and rebel sometimes at your hard lot in providence; but if you feel what you deserve, it will make you water with tears of repentance the hardest cross. So in grace, if you feel the weight of your sins, and mourn and sigh because you have sinned against God, you can lift up your hands sometimes with holy wonder at God's longsuffering mercy that He has borne with you so long; that He has not smitten you to the earth, or sent your guilty soul to hell.   You    will see, too, that the heaviest strokes were but fatherly   ...

"Being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ."    -I Corinthians 9:21  [KJV] Sit down my soul, this evening, and ponder over this blessed distinction which the apostle makes between the lawless conduct of those, who, from a mere conviction of the truth in the head, but who never felt the influences of it in their heart, hold the truth in unrighteousness; and those who, while conscious of being under the law to Christ, are not without law to God.   To thee, my soul, who hast been brought under the condemnation of God's holy law, and hast been enabled, through sovereign grace, to take refuge in the person, blood, and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ; to thee, justification by faith, so far from relaxing thine obedience to the law of God, has proved the best of all motives to the practice of it. Thou knowest thyself to be bought with a price; and therefore, as the Lord's property, both by His purchase, and thy voluntary surrender, it is thy desire ab...

"Who loved me, and gave Himself for me." - Galatians 2:20 [KJV] Many of the saints of God may not be so highly favoured as to take up into their lips Paul's language of strong, personal assurance. They may hope, and at times may rise beyond a hope, into a sweet confidence, by the shining in of the Sun of righteousness, that the Son of God has loved them, and given Himself for them. But the strength of Paul's persuasion and the full expression of his confidence so far outstrip both their assurance and their language, that many real saints of God confess they come short both in heart and tongue. Yet their coming short of this blessed certainty as an enjoyed reality in the heart, and as a declared confidence by the mouth—for conscience and tongue must move together where God works— does not affect the fact.   Clouds and mists sometimes obscure the sun, but they do not blot him out of the sky. So the mists and fogs of unbelief may obscure the Sun of righteousness, yet th...